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React Native Radio - RNR 358 - React Native for Meta Quest Part 2: Developer Friendly Evan Albert from Meta joins Mazen and Robin on the episode! Evan reveals how React Native developers can now build apps for Meta Quest using the tools they already know and love. From infinite screen ...

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Build apps for Meta Quest using tools you already know?

In Part 2, Evan Albert joins @mazenchami.dev and @robinheinze.dev to show how React Native devs can start shipping for the Quest headset 🥽

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Moar MCP

i'm continually mystified why otherwise smart people keep publishing llm-assisted essays. the bla IS the bla; it's not foo, it's bar. look this shit just sucks to read, pls stop this

React Native Newsletter #193 Issue 193 — The annual survey results are in, Expo SDK 55 drops Legacy Architecture, and 3 open source libraries worth checking out.

Really enjoyed the most recent issue of the React Native Newsletter. Short, sweet, and made me chuckle. If you aren’t reading, you’re missing out: mailchi.mp/infinite/rea...

Give it a spin! github.com/mobxjs/mobx-...

We may have a few other improvements coming soon. Again, lots of community PRs recently. Keep it up.

It's been a while since MobX-State-Tree had a proper release (we have mostly slowed down development on it). But the last couple weeks have seen an influx of high quality PRs.

In particular, applySnapshot is up to two orders of magnitude faster on 7.1.0, with no API changes. Strictly perf gains.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say something got “quietly” shipped if a bunch of people are talking about it on LinkedIn lol

You Built an App This Weekend. Now What? AI got you 80% of the way there, and now you’re stuck.

Our team knows how to use AI.

More importantly, we know when it's important to step in.

Compliance, security, performance… the last 20% is where a seasoned engineer becomes critical.

Our own @joshuayoes.com recently wrote about this and it's worth the read 👇

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Hey this one rhymes!

I've known about the maxWorkers trick for a while, but a few months ago I sat down to dig into *why* it fixes things. This was a fun experimental set up. and if you are sick of blogs about AI, this one has none of that, so you may find it refreshing lol

AI in React Native · Luma Explore how React Native continues to evolve as a leading framework for building high-quality cross-platform applications. We’re bringing together mobile…

🚀 AI is about to change React Native forever.

We’re going live with This Dot Labs in 30 minutes to talk about it!

Join @gantlaborde.com, Tracy Lee, @mazenchami.dev, @brandonmathis.bsky.social to see what's possible

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Building Vercel’s v0 mobile app with Fernando Rojo!
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@mazenchami.dev and @robinheinze.dev talk with Fernando about React Native, @expo.dev, native-level performance, sharing code with web, and more.

Link in thread 🧵

Ok so I tried the Big Arch and I think I understand why that CEO video went so poorly. It’s too wide, doesn’t stay together easily. It’s an awkward sandwich to eat, and they made an awkward person eat it. Tastes fine but won’t replace my normal McDonalds order anytime soon

Thinking I’m gonna mess around with Skia this weekend…

Chain React 2026 Chain React is a three-day event exploring the latest in React Native. It features a 1-day workshop followed by a 2-day conference that brings together leaders from companies such as Meta, Amazon, and...

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This Friday on React Native Radio, @wcandillon.bsky.social is joining @mazenchami.dev and @robinheinze.dev to talk all about React Native Skia!

If you're building beautiful UIs in React Native, you do NOT want to miss this one. 🔥

See you Friday!

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Chain React 2026 Chain React is a three-day event exploring the latest in React Native. It features a 1-day workshop followed by a 2-day conference that brings together leaders from companies such as Meta, Amazon, and...

🤖AI is changing A LOT about React Native development.

Chain React is your guide through it!
We'll have lots of AI topics at the conf.

Blind Bird tickets are the BEST price and the price goes up when speakers are announced.

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Isn’t it wild that a few years ago people were still sort of debating over TypeScript adoption, and now we’re like “hmm should I give my autonomous coding robot full permissions to my machine, or make it do PRs in the cloud that I have another robot read?”

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

So who is gonna be the one to tell Pete Hegseth how many massive American companies are investors in Anthropic?

React Native Radio - RNR 354 - React Native Screens with Krzysztof Magiera Ever wonder about that library lurking in every React Native app's dependencies? Krzysztof Magiera digs into React Native Screens, the "most important library you'll never use directly," from its orig...

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Krzysztof Magiera (@kzzzf.bsky.social) joins @mazenchami.dev and @robinheinze.dev to talk React Native Screens!

This discussion goes deep into how it started + where it's headed with a V5 rewrite built for the New Architecture.

Listen now! 👇
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Leggo

You can take the boy out of the Naugatuck River Valley, but he will return to the Naugatuck River Valley

The idea that coding agents prove "learn to code was a mistake" is kind of analogous to thinking the printing press meant "psych! y'all wasted a lot of time learning how to write."

Computational thinking is getting easier to pick up, and also providing more leverage than before.

We’re gonna want new modalities of configuring and paying for services. I’m tired of making tokens and giving them to Claude. So I made a static web host that treats LLMs as the primary interface. LLM requests a token, you pay with a Stripe link, LLM can use token to do stuff.

shipsite.sh

React Native Radio - RNR 346 - Shopify's Transition to the (new) Architecture In this episode, Mazen Chami sits down with Mustafa Ali (Director of Engineering and Head of Mobile at Shopify) and Thiago Magalhães (Staff Software Developer at Shopify) to dive deep into Shopify’s t...

RNR is taking a break this week 😮‍💨

But if you missed RNR 346, now's your chance! It's one of our most popular episodes.

Mustafa and Thiago from Shopify talk migrating to the new architecture: what worked, what broke, and more!

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History, rhyming, etc….

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Yeah I tried containers but I just really like that I can walk over to the MacBook and unblock Claude when needed. Like a real coworker. Also useful for mobile build tooling like Xcode.